This paper describes the accounting profession, and the education and training of accountants and accounting technicians in Sub-Saharan Anglphone Africa. It reviews professional accounting examinations and degrees, educatio, practical training, and continuing professional education. The paper...

This paper makes available a list of formal and informal publications produced by the staff and consultants of the Africa Region from 1990 through April 1997. It covers the region's work in Africa in all sectors. Publications listed in the bibliography include World Bank Technical Papers,...

This paper surveys health reform in the former Soviet countries of Central Asia. Reform efforts are evaluated in the context of achieving the goals of improving people's health status, maintaining acces and equity, improving efficiency, increasing clinical effectiveness, and assuring quality and...

This monograph is designed to provide a review, exposition and critical assessment of the concepts and methods for estimating economic benefits of investment and policy decisions involving water. It is intended for field practitioners possessing some training in applied economics who face the...

There is already a large consensus in Slovenia for involving the private sector in communal infrastructure financing. However, there is presently no global strategy for translating this consensus into practice. the purpose of this study is to contribute toward a better understanding of communal...

This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen form a Surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the period 1984 to 1994. The countries included in this Surveillance project are Argentina,...